Graduately Developing Futures

Graduately Developing Futures Mission

Our Mission

To engage those who are disengaged, isolated, hard to reach, disadvantaged and who have Special Educational Needs in learning interventions that will develop confidence, self-esteem, resilience and skills and experiences needed to embrace life-long learning, utilising our outdoor learning environment to provide real life experiences.

Engage Motivate Inspire

EMI

EMI is our ethos and we are able to achieve this through our environment at Valley View Farm, its personnel, relationship bonding and trust with parents guardians and foster parents.

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Graduately Developing Futures - Achieving the Mission

Graduately Developing Future (GDF)'s curriculum reflects the particular needs of those with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Education Health Care Plans (EHCP). GDF caters for and engages with students from right across the spectrum and works in partnership with local authorities across Dorset to ensure it meets identified gaps in local provision. GDF’s outdoor learning environment provides the opportunity for utilising real life experiences and taking a kinaesthetic approach.

We consider provision of a complete educational context, from ages 6 to 11, which allows the most effective route through which students can be motivated and inspired to fulfil their individual educational and social potential.

Children and young people with SEN can have their learning needs characterised

by the triad of impairments listed below:

· Difficulties in communication – both receptive and expressive

· Difficulties in forming effective social relationships

· Impairment of imagination and flexibility of thought

Students attending GDF may also experience extreme anxiety and have low self-esteem. Coping with daily life can be extremely arduous, GDF is dedicated to mitigating such difficulties thereby increasing the students learning receptivity, attainment

and life skill base.

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Graduately Developing Futures Pride & Vision

Graduately Developing Futures Mission

Graduately Developing Futures - Achieving the Mission

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